Coit Tower
Coit Memorial Tower | |
 Coit Tower with statue of Columbus in foreground | |
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| Location | 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd., San Francisco, California |
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| Coordinates | 37°48′09″N 122°24′21″W / 37.80250°N 122.40583°W |
| Area | 1.7 acres (0.69 ha) |
| Built | 1933 |
| Architect | Brown, Arthur Jr. |
| Architectural style | Art Deco |
| NRHP reference No. | 07001468[1] |
| SFDL No. | 165 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | January 29, 2008 |
| Designated SFDL | 1984[2] |
Coit Tower is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built in 1933. Lillie Hitchcock Coit left one-third of her estate to the city "to be expended in an appropriate manner for the purpose of adding to the beauty of the city which I have always loved".[3]
The art deco tower is made of unpainted reinforced concrete. Architects Arthur Brown, Jr. and Henry Howard designed it. The tower has fresco murals by 27 different on-site artists and their assistants, plus two additional paintings installed after creation off-site.[4]
The tower was not designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle,[5] despite Coit's affinity with the San Francisco firefighters of the day, in particular with Knickerbocker Engine Company Number 5.
Photo gallery
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View of Coit Tower, Alcatraz, and Marin County from Downtown. -
The intersection of Filbert Street and Napier Lane on Telegraph Hill. -
A closer photograph of Coit Tower from the parking lot. -
Coit Tower elevator -
A picture of Coit Tower at sunset. -
Coit Tower from a below street. -
Looking up at the tower -
Coit Tower at Night
The murals
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Industry both in the city and out in the fields was an important theme in the murals. -
Notice the robbery on the bottom right, and the car accident in the center -
Some of the headlines in the newspapers discuss the creating of the murals
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
- ↑ "City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks". City of San Francisco. Retrieved 2012-10-21.
- ↑ Pryor, Alton (2003). Fascinating Women in California History. Stagecoach Pub. pp. 86. ISBN 0966005392.
- ↑ "Coit Tower Murals - San Francisco, CA - Murals on Waymarking.com". www.waymarking.com. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
- ↑ Crowe, Michael F. and Robert W. Bowen (2007). Images of America: San Francisco Art Deco. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 72. ISBN 978-0-7385-4734-3.
Other websites
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- video of tower history and mural tour
- Coit Tower at Structurae
- San Francisco Highs at Coit Tower Archived 2015-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Coit Tower page in New Deal Art Registry Archived 2010-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Photography of Telegraph Hill Archived 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine by Bennett Hall
